UBC Dairy Research Centre

Location
Agassiz, BC

Client
UBC University of British Columbia

The UBC Dairy Centre is a new community hub for the UBC Dairy Research Centre in Agassiz BC. The project offers quality faculty and student co-housing in addition to common social, research and infrastructure spaces, arranged around a common courtyard to create a vibrant community where they can live, socialize and collaborate in a delightful and engaging way. A careful balance between simplicity and efficiency together with a more varied organization and artful expression connect the building to its rural context and the diversity of people with each other. Offering near Passive House low energy performance with a highly insulated building envelope and triple glazed window system, the building has no onsite carbon emissions through the use of a geothermal field linked to heat pumps and a radiant floor system. Off-site pre-fabrication and full pre-construction design integration ensured a cost-efficient, on-time, on-budget, low risk project delivery.